Risk Factors for Recurrent Nonsyncopal Falls: A Prospective Study

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 261, Issue 18, 1989, Pages 2663-2668

  Nevitt, Michael C ^a   Cummings, Steven R ^a   Kidd, Sharon ^a   Black, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FALLING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VISUAL ACUITY; WHITES;

EID: 0024560314     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420180087036     Document Type: Article

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